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  • ‘We’re So Sick of It’: Northern Border Crisis Gets Worse

    03/18/2024 4:33:21 PM PDT · by george76 · 20 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | March 17, 2024 | Allan Stein
    Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the northern U.S. border have jumped from 916 in fiscal year 2021 to 10,021 in fiscal 2023.. HIGHGATE, Vt.—At dawn or dusk, Kristy Brow used to enjoy alone time walking in the woods on her 21-acre property in Highgate, Vermont, a small rural town near the U.S.–Canada border. Lately, however, she’s cautious—she’s worried about potential encounters with illegal immigrants along the remote logging trail. “I don’t go out by myself anymore—especially at night,” said Mrs. Brow, who runs a dog obedience business from her home. “It’s unsettling. You can’t feel relaxed anymore,” she...
  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he often mulls quitting his ‘crazy job,’ but will stay on

    03/16/2024 1:39:59 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    Nypost ^ | 03/16/2024 | Reuters
    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose Liberals are trailing badly in the polls, on Friday said he thought about quitting his “crazy job” every day but insisted he would stay in office until the next election. That vote must be held by October 2025 and recent surveys of public opinion show the Liberals would be crushed by the right-of-center Conservatives. Pollsters say voters are tiring of Trudeau, who first took office in November 2015.
  • Jonathan Turley warns Canada 'doubling down' on push to restrict free speech: 'Not likely to end there'

    03/15/2024 7:55:51 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 12 replies
    foxnews ^ | 03/15/2024 | Kristine Parks
    Free speech advocates around the world railed against a new Canadian law that could demand a life sentence for adults who violate speech laws on social media. Introduced last month, the Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63, would empower judges to imprison adults for life if they post views supportive of genocide. The bill would increase the maximum penalty for advocating genocide from five years to life imprisonment and from two years to five years, on indictment, for the willful promotion of hatred. Advocates of the bill say it will make online platforms safer. However, critics called the law "totalitarian"...
  • Trudeau’s Canada: Canadian Police Advise Leaving Car Keys in Front Door to Deter Break-Ins and Minimize Conflict with Thieves

    03/14/2024 7:35:13 PM PDT · by bitt · 102 replies
    gatewaypundit.com ^ | 3/14/2024 | JIM HOFT
    In the face of an alarming rise in car thefts, Toronto Police Service (TPS) Constable Marco Ricciardi has offered a controversial tip to residents: leave car keys in the front door to avoid violent home invasions. During a community safety meeting in Etobicoke, Constable Ricciardi addressed the issue, stating, “To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door because they’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.” In short, don’t make it hard for thieves to steal your car. This is what an unarmed society looks...
  • Haters Could Migrate to Smaller Platforms Not Covered by Online Harms Bill, Fear Minorities

    03/14/2024 4:04:24 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    The Globe and Mail ^ | MARCH 4, 2024 | Marie Woolf
    Currently, only platforms with user numbers above a certain threshold, to be set out through regulation, will be covered by the billPeople blocked from posting hate speech on social media might migrate to smaller platforms not covered by Canada’s new online harms bill, minority advocates warn. Richard Marceau, general counsel at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said he supported the bill as a way to combat hate speech. But he was concerned that if the bill only included the big platforms it would not deal with “people kicked off them or active on smaller platforms.” What to know...
  • Justin Trudeau’s Canada: Proposed Law May Allow Life Imprisonment for Online Speech ‘Crimes’

    03/14/2024 4:01:24 PM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/14/24 | Amy Furr
    A proposed law in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canada will reportedly allow judges to throw adults in jail for life if they advocate for genocide online.Fox News reported Thursday that the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) would permit life sentences. The article also said, “The law would also allow a provincial judge to impose house arrest and a fine if there were reasonable grounds to believe a defendant ‘will commit’ an offense.”After Justice Minister Arif Virani introduced the bill, he said that in his role as a father, he was frightened of the dangers children might encounter online.Virani also said...
  • Margaret Atwood Calls Online Harms Bill ‘Orwellian,’ Notes Potential for Abuse

    03/14/2024 3:59:52 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    The Globe and Mail ^ | March 12, 2024 | Marie Woolf
    Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood has warned that the federal government’s online harms bill is “Orwellian” and its definitions of punishable hate speech are vague and could invite abuse, such as unwarranted complaints under the Canadian Human Rights Act. Ms. Atwood said she has been the frequent target of “hate speech, online vilification, lies, threats and doxxing” and is “no fan of this kind of online behaviour.” But, in an e-mail exchange with The Globe and Mail, she said she is “also no fan of unsupervised authority acting under vague laws, without any oversight.” On Friday, she posted on X her...
  • Sophie Grégoire Trudeau Says Women 'Shouldn’t Expect the Minimum,' Months After Split With Justin (Veiled Swipe)

    03/14/2024 3:55:25 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
    She also shared tips on how she looks after her emotional well-being. 'I think we need more playfulness in this world. We should be very wary of ... adults who can’t play anymore'Sophie Grégoire Trudeau said women “shouldn’t expect the minimum” in what is being interpreted as a “veiled swipe” at Justin Trudeau by international media. Grégoire Trudeau has been making media appearances ahead of the publication of her debut book, Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other, which will be released on April 23, 2024. In Abu Dhabi, she was at the Forbes and Know Your Value’s annual 30/50...
  • Canadian law endorsed by Trudeau government could imprison people for life for advocating genocide

    03/14/2024 3:49:01 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 14, 2024, | Bradford Betz
    A Canadian law that aims to make social media platforms safer is getting flak for what some decry as government overreach. Introduced late last month, the Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63, would allow judges to imprison adults for life if they advocate for genocide. The law would also allow a provincial judge to impose house arrest and a fine if there were reasonable grounds to believe a defendant “will commit” an offense – a provision Wall Street Journal columnist Michael Taube likened to the 2002 film, The Minority Report. Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale, has criticized the...
  • What’s Inside Trudeau’s ‘Orwellian’ Speech Law Threatening Jail Time for Thought Crimes?

    03/14/2024 9:31:24 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 23 replies
    Sputnik News ^ | 3/14/24 | Ilya Tsukanov
    Canadians got their first rude awakening about the limits to their constitutional freedoms during the Freedom Convoy protests in February of 2022, when, in a crackdown on truckers objecting to draconian Covid restrictions, the Trudeau government invoked the Emergencies Act, allowing authorities to jail organizers and seize their bank accounts. Sweeping “online safety” legislation in Canada proposed Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government threatening penalties up to life imprisonment for speech crimes, and real sentences for thought crimes, have civil rights groups sounding the alarm. The legislation, known as the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63), was tabled by Justice Minister...
  • Toronto Police: Just Let the Thieves Steal Your Car

    03/13/2024 8:31:27 PM PDT · by thegagline · 50 replies
    The Drive ^ | 03/13/2024 | Chris Tsui
    The city of Toronto has a car theft problem, and it doesn't sound like police have much of a clue as to how to combat it. In a recent safety meeting, one officer even gave advice that basically boiled down to: If thieves come knocking to steal your car, just let 'em have it. As reported by blogTO, Toronto Police Service Constable Marco Ricciardi said, "To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your [key] fobs at your front door because they're breaking into your home to steal your car. They don't want anything else." On the...
  • Canada Proposes Life Sentences for Those Found Guilty of Online 'Hate Speech'

    03/12/2024 10:18:44 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 68 replies
    Red State ^ | February 27, 2024 | Ben Kew
    The Canadian government is proposing a bill that would raise the maximum punishment for online hate speech from five years to a life sentence. The proposal forms part of the latest Online Harms Bill, put forward by Justin Trudeau's left-wing government, which seeks to its assert control over online discourse: The National Post reports: "Bill C-63 aims to force social-media, user-uploaded adult content and live-streaming services to reduce exposure to online content deemed harmful, to strengthen the reporting of child pornography and to better address hate propaganda and provide recourse to victims of hate online. "It also amends the Criminal...
  • Canada reimposes visa requirements for Mexicans as asylum claims surge

    03/11/2024 4:35:31 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 13 replies
    BBC ^ | 02 29 2024 | Staff
    A surge of Mexican nationals seeking asylum has led Canada to bring back visa requirements that were lifted nearly eight years ago. Immigration Minister Marc Miller said on Thursday that more than half of the asylum applications to the country are either abandoned or rejected. Ottawa removed the requirements in 2016 to improve relations with Mexico. Since then, an influx of immigrants has put strain on the government of Quebec and pushed it to a "breaking point".Asylum claims from Mexican nationals to Canada rose from 260 to 23,995 between 2016 and 2023, an increase of more than 9,000%, according to...
  • Is extending life by weeks worth the toll some cancer drugs take? Doctors push for 'common-sense oncology' (The slippery slope of state sanctioned euthanasia.)

    03/11/2024 11:08:02 AM PDT · by jerod · 71 replies
    CBC news ^ | Mar 11, 2024 | Amina Zafar, Christine Birak
    People may celebrate a 2-week improvement in survival without acknowledging costsTom Somerville's decision to stop medical treatment for his end-stage cancer was a personal one. Somerville, 62, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2021 that later spread to his liver. He had six months of chemotherapy to slow down the cancer, which he said also left him exhausted with nausea. The Kingston, Ont., resident decided to take a break from treatment to enjoy a trip with his wife to Victoria. "Things that you cherish change, right?" Somerville said. "I used to love being out in the bush, but now it...
  • Chinese Scientists in Canada Were Sharing Information with China (and PM Justin Trudeau Covered It Up)

    02/29/2024 10:23:01 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 2 replies
    Hotair ^ | 02/29/2024 | John Sexton
    A pair of Chinese scientists who worked in a Canadian biological laboratory were marched out of the lab in 2019 and fired in 2021. The pair, who are married, claimed they were being targeted because they are Chinese but an investigations by Canada's intelligence agency found they were sharing information with China including at one point with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Trudeau government has sat on the information related to the case ever since but finally this week some unredacted documents were released.On Wednesday, the government released hundreds of pages related to the firing of Xiangguo Qiu and...
  • Brian Mulroney, one of Canada's most consequential prime ministers, is dead at 84

    02/29/2024 4:51:03 PM PST · by Kriggerel · 12 replies
    CBC News ^ | February 29, 2024 | John Paul Tasker
    Brian Mulroney — who, as Canada's 18th prime minister, steered the country through a tumultuous period in national and world affairs — has died. He was 84. His daughter Caroline Mulroney shared the news Thursday afternoon on social media. "On behalf of my mother and our family, it is with great sadness we announce the passing of my father, The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Canada's 18th Prime Minister. He died peacefully, surrounded by family," she said on X, formerly Twitter.
  • Secret documents reveal Trudeau government virologists had “clandestine relationship” with Chinese agents

    02/29/2024 2:11:39 PM PST · by george76 · 13 replies
    Counter Signal ^ | February 28, 2024 | KEEAN BEXTE
    Documents authored by Canada’s top intelligence service reveal the long awaited explanation behind the abrupt departure of two virologists from Canada’s top biolaboratory. ... The documents, which have been viewed by The Counter Signal and published here for our readers expose the Trudeau government for hiding the true reason for the departure of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu Canada’s Public Health agency. ... Despite the Liberals citing the departure as a private “personnel issue,” the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) accuses Dr. Qiu of a long history of clandestine actions that put Canadians’ heath and security at risk, along with directly assisting...
  • Canada scores world record for organ donation euthanasia

    02/29/2024 11:17:31 AM PST · by xoxox · 15 replies
    Daily Compass ^ | 08_02_2024 | Luca Volontè
    ...Organ donation organisations in Ontario and Quebec, for example, are already contacting patients on the euthanasia waiting list to request their livers, kidneys and spleens if they are in good condition. A study published in January 2024 by the Canadian Medical Association Journal on all organ donation cases from January 2018 to December 2022 shows that since 2018, when it became possible to donate one's organs after making the decision to end one's life by euthanasia, doctors who provide medical assistance in dying (Maid, euphemism for euthanasia and assisted suicide) are encouraged to discuss/promote organ donation with eligible patients once...
  • Canadian pension plan dumps stake in NYC commercial real estate project for just $1 in ‘opposite of a vote of confidence for office’

    02/28/2024 8:56:00 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Fortune ^ | 02/28/2024 | ARI ALTSTEDTER, PAULA SAMBO AND BLOOMBERG
    Canadian pension funds have been among the world’s most prolific buyers of real estate, starting a revolution that inspired retirement plans around the globe to emulate them. Now the largest of them is taking steps to limit its exposure to the most-beleaguered property type — office buildings. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has done three deals at discounted prices, selling its interests in a pair of Vancouver towers, a business park in Southern California and a redevelopment project in Manhattan, with the New York stake offloaded for the eyebrow-raising price of just $1. The worry is those deals may set...
  • 'Woke authoritarian agenda': Trudeau Liberals propose life sentences for online 'hate speech'

    02/28/2024 9:18:23 AM PST · by Twotone · 33 replies
    The Blaze ^ | February 27, 2024 | Joseph Mackinnon
    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's deeply unpopular regime rolled out new legislation Monday that threatens to radically transform the Canadian legal landscape and equip activists with new means of clamping down on speech they perceive to be hateful. On its face, Bill C-63, the so-called "Online Harms Act," contains various uncontroversial elements such as the promise to tackle child pornography online. While Justice Minister Arif Virani and other Liberal officials have emphasized these elements when promoting the bill, the child protections appear only to be the vehicle for the transformative substance of C-63. C-63 would enable Trudeau's leftist government to define...